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9 Nov 2023 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimorene1. The weather report today predicted full moon and partly cloudy at 5 pm. That means the sun's already below the horizon when I leave work at four. That means the Low Energy Times have begun. It should be hibernating time, really, but everyone seems to expect us to still get out of bed/the house. Wax seems to be even tireder than me this week, unusually. Possibly still recovering from migraines.
2. Wax and I have each separately failed every day this week to call the locksmith because we need to call them before they finish their workday and they're a little local business! That's eight failures so far, put together.
3. I finally managed to take my blood pressure at work. The first reading was much higher than the control reading this morning before my medicine. I need to take a bunch of other comparison ones now to check, but if that's representative of the effect on me of methylphenidate I'll have to probably try a different one. It took my pulse from like 74 bpm to 107 bpm. So not great. I wouldn't really mind switching medicines; it's just weird if the difference is that great and I hadn't noticed it subjectively.
4. Snookums's blood sugar is being unpredictable. Fortunately in the way where he's been a bit queasy, not having hypoglycemic episodes, which are much more dangerous. But it's a bit stressful. I have to find the time to take a blood curve in order to consult the vet, because they need as much data as possible in order to make any kind of recommendation. And a blood curve means taking a blood glucose reading every other hour for twelve hours, so I have to be home to do it.
2. Wax and I have each separately failed every day this week to call the locksmith because we need to call them before they finish their workday and they're a little local business! That's eight failures so far, put together.
3. I finally managed to take my blood pressure at work. The first reading was much higher than the control reading this morning before my medicine. I need to take a bunch of other comparison ones now to check, but if that's representative of the effect on me of methylphenidate I'll have to probably try a different one. It took my pulse from like 74 bpm to 107 bpm. So not great. I wouldn't really mind switching medicines; it's just weird if the difference is that great and I hadn't noticed it subjectively.
4. Snookums's blood sugar is being unpredictable. Fortunately in the way where he's been a bit queasy, not having hypoglycemic episodes, which are much more dangerous. But it's a bit stressful. I have to find the time to take a blood curve in order to consult the vet, because they need as much data as possible in order to make any kind of recommendation. And a blood curve means taking a blood glucose reading every other hour for twelve hours, so I have to be home to do it.
